Healing Inside & Out: MA Tobacco-Free Hospitals Honor Roll
The Honor Roll recognizes member hospitals (more than 76%), including all their campuses, as well as certain other affiliated healthcare providers, that self- reported having fully achieved tobacco-free status, which means the grounds are completely tobacco-free, including parking lots and garages, there are absolutely no exceptions. Tobacco-Free Hospitals have policies which eliminate employee, patient and visitor exposure to tobacco smoke and assist employees and patients to quit smoking.
Anna Jaques Hospital Lahey Hospital & Medical Center Athol Memorial Hospital Lawrence General Hospital Baystate Franklin Medical Center Lowell General Hospital Baystate Mary Lane Hospital Marlborough Hospital Baystate Medical Center Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Baystate Wing Hospital Massachusetts Hospital School Berkshire Medical Center Mercy Medical Center Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Needham MetroWest Medical Center Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth Milford Regional Medical Center Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Mount Auburn Hospital Beverly Hospital New Bedford Rehabilitation Hospital Boston Children's Hospital New England Baptist Hospital Boston Medical Center New England Rehabilitation Hospital Brigham and Women's Hospital Noble Hospital Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital North Shore Medical Center Cambridge Health Alliance Saint Vincent Hospital Clinton Hospital Shriners Hospital for Children Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Inc. Shriners Hospital for Children-Boston Burns Unit Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital Emerson Hospital Southcoast Hospitals Group Fairlawn Rehabilitation Hospital South Shore Hospital Fairview Hospital Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Boston Franciscan Hospital for Children Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Cape Cod Hallmark Health Corporation Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital for Continuing Medical Harrington Hospital Care Cambridge HealthAlliance Hospitals, Inc. Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital for Continuing Medical HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Care North Shore Western MA Tewksbury Hospital Hebrew Rehabilitation Center Tufts Medical Center & Floating Hospital for Children Heywood Hospital UMass Memorial Medical Center Kindred Hospital Boston Winchester Hospital Kindred Hospital Northeast - Stoughton Affiliated Care Providers
MHA’s Physician Hospital Integration Collaborative (PHIC) members and other affiliated care providers are also joining the tobacco-free effort.
Reliant Medical Group
Tobacco-Free Hiring
Some hospitals and health systems in Massachusetts have taken their commitment to public health a step beyond instituting a tobacco-free campus and have adopted tobacco-free hiring policies as well. The Massachusetts Hospital Association stopped hiring tobacco users as of January 1st, 2011.
The following hospitals in Massachusetts no longer hire tobacco users:
Anna Jaques Hospital
Heywood Hospital
MetroWest Medical Center
New England Baptist Hospital
Saint Vincent Hospital